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title: Wicked trick, what did Gudu say the custom forbade? — Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabb… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked trick, what did Gudu say the custom forbade? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1139 «Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, part 1: Gudu cheats Isuro of food on the road» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, par…

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Wicked trick, what did Gudu say the custom forbade?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gudu, custom · **What happens:** say, forbid · **To what, where:** Wicked trick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1139 «Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, part 1: Gudu cheats Isuro of food on the road» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1139-pg3027-part5/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1139-pg3027-part5:t8:1
# text = Wicked trick, what did Gudu say the custom forbade?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	forbade	forbid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Gudu | Wicked trick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forbid** | past | the custom |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Eating before Gudu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1139-pg3027-part5:t8:o1:1
# text = Eating before Gudu
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  | before Gudu |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Isuro leaving before Gudu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1139-pg3027-part5:t8:o2:1
# text = Isuro leaving before Gudu
1	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | Isuro *not said here* |  |  | Gudu |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent before gudu=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Isuro eating till Gudu finished

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1139-pg3027-part5:t8:o3:1
# text = Isuro eating till Gudu finished
1	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	till	till	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund | Isuro *not said here* |  |  |  | till Gudu |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **finish** | past | Isuro |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Isuro drinking water from the well until Gudu finished

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1139-pg3027-part5:t8:o4:1
# text = Isuro drinking water from the well until Gudu finished
1	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	until	until	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund | Isuro *not said here* | water |  | the well until Gudu |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 2 | **finish** | past | Isuro |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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